| Acknowledgements | p. viii |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Approaching Asian Cinemas | |
| Orientalism and Japanese Cinema | |
| Japanese cinema and orientalism | p. 8 |
| A filmmaker for all seasons | p. 17 |
| The difficulty of being radical: the discipline of film studies and the postcolonial world order | p. 27 |
| Godzilla and the Japanese nightmare: when Them! is U.S. | p. 41 |
| Monster island: Godzilla and Japanese sci-fi/horror/fantasy | p. 56 |
| Colonial Encounters, Post-colonial Criticism and Hong Kong Cinema | |
| The post-colonial Hong Kong cinema | p. 62 |
| The new Hong Kong cinema and the deja disparu | p. 72 |
| Kung Fu: negotiating nationalism and modernity | p. 100 |
| Under 'Western eyes': the personal odyssey of Huang Fei-Hong in Once upon a Time in China | p. 126 |
| Cross-Cultural Criticism and Chinese Cinema | |
| Cross-cultural criticism and Chinese cinema | p. 148 |
| Problematizing cross-cultural analysis: the case of women in the recent Chinese cinema | p. 156 |
| Seeing modern China: toward a theory of ethnic spectatorship | p. 168 |
| Yellow Earth: Western analysis and a non-Western text | p. 200 |
| Frameworks of Study | |
| National Cinema: The Case of Turkey | |
| Turkish national cinema | p. 220 |
| Narratives of resistance: national identity and ambivalence in the Turkish melodrama between 1965 and 1975 | p. 229 |
| Translating modernity: remakes in Turkish cinema | p. 242 |
| Mute bodies, disembodied voices: notes on sound in Turkish popular cinema | p. 255 |
| Genre Criticism and Popular Indian Cinema | |
| Genre criticism and popular Indian cinema | p. 272 |
| Indian cinema: pleasures and popularity | p. 280 |
| Addressing the spectator of a 'third world' national cinema: the Bombay 'social' film of the 1940s and 1950s | p. 295 |
| 'Hum Aapke Hain Koun?' - cinephilia and Indian films | p. 317 |
| Shifting pitch: The Bollywood song sequence in the Anglo-American market | p. 346 |
| Questions of Authorship and Taiwanese Cinema | |
| Film authorship and Taiwanese cinema | p. 359 |
| Ozu and the colonial encounter in Hou Hsiao-Hsien | p. 369 |
| Tokyo love story and NY bagels: East-West cultural encounter in Edward Yang's Taipei Story | p. 384 |
| The transnational cinema of Ang Lee | p. 393 |
| Stardom: The Case of Bruce Lee | |
| Bruce Lee: stardom and identity | p. 405 |
| Bruce Lee: narcissus and the little dragon | p. 414 |
| Han's Island revisited: Enter the Dragon as transnational cult film | p. 426 |
| Fists of fury: discourses of race and masculinity in the martial arts cinema | p. 437 |
| Bibliography | p. 457 |
| Index of films/TV programmes | p. 465 |
| Index of key terms | p. 470 |
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